Health Secretary Jeane Freeman is expected to outline changes to self-funder payments next week.
While Alzheimer Scotland said it was just “the beginning of a process’ that recognises the inequity faced by those with advanced dementia, Jim Pearson, Director of Policy and Research for the charity, said it was a sign that the government “is listening.”
He said: “It is a step forward in that direction, it’s really positive.
“Ordinarily there is an annual uprate but this time they have made what is proportionately a significantly greater increase that it would normally be.
“The communication we have had is that it has been influenced by our Fair Dementia Care campaign and the support of the Herald.